Fathers Influence and Failed Dreams: A Comparative Analysis of Things Fall Apart and Death of a Salesman

Name Professor Course code Date Comparison Essay: Things Fall Apart and Death of a Salesman The relationship between a father and son can often be described as an experience full of pain and liberation. Fathers perceive that children ought to grow up like them despite their negative paternal influence, creating controversy on being successful and living a good life. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller are historical fiction that depicts their paternal influence's complexity. Okonkwo and Willy have negative perceptions of success. Okonkwo believed success is characterized by violence and masculinity, and Willy thinks of a well-liked businessman as being successful. Okonkwo has a very strained relationship with his father, Unoka, and ended up adopting opposite ideals. There is intense friction between Willy Loman and his son Biff. Biff is a traitor of his father’s expectations, and Willy believes that his son has let him down on the verge of achieving the American dream. Unoka was a failure and a debtor while Willy was a salesman, and both their sons had no interest in their father's envision for them. Nwoye Okonkwo’s son depicts Unoka’s character leading to Okonkwo disowning him. Within the play Death of a Salesman and the novel Things Fall Apart, the Authors utilize characterization to illustrate the failures within a father-son relationship. Every father has that ideal